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St. Louis IMC Raided By Police -- City Inspectors Sent To Look For Code Violations. |
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by St. Louis IMC (via Sascha Meinrath)
Email: sascha (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
16 May 2003
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St. Louis Police have raided the Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) and the Bolozone, a St. Louis housing collective. The raids target participants of the Biodevastation7 conference and activists converging at the World Agricultural Forum. Observers at CAMP have reported that the St. Louis Police have handcuffed about 20 people, and City Inspectors accompanied by police are inspecting the building for violations. Ten people have been arrested at Bolozone. |
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This was forwarded by an Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter currently in St. Louis:
PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL LISTS
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW!
Mitchel Cohen, Sehvilla Mann & Brian Tokar, writing from the BioDevastation Conference against Genetic Engineering in St. Louis, home of Monsanto:
At least 20-30 people have been arrested and we need your help. Police invaded two known movement homes this morning,
apparently in "pre-emptive raids" to prevent their attendance at Sunday's demonstration against the World Agricultural Forum.
Others were taken into custody while riding their bicycles to the BioDevastation gathering at Forest Park Community College, and the police have left the bicycles lying along the road. Sarah Bantz, organizer for MORAGE and a speaker at the BioDevastation conference, was arrested for having a container of Vitamin C capsules, which police are claiming to be an illegal drug.
Police have also entered the Randall Building, office of the Gateway Greens/Green Party USA, St. Louis IndyMedia, the
Confluence newspaper, and other organizations, searching for "violations" and who knows what else.
For the last two weeks, the St. Louis police have been spreading rumors of "Seattle-like violence" in order to
ratchet up the levels of tension, rationalizing their procurement of riot gear and new "crowd control" weapons.
We are asking EVERYONE to call the Chief of Police Joe Mokwa, at (314) 444-5624 and demand their immediate release and stop their harassment of the movement against genetic engineering and corporate agribusiness.
We understand that the police may hang up as people try to call the above number. Other numbers for police are (314) 444-5555 and (314) 231-1212.
Thank you, and please spread the word.
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